Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] the [adj] day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they wanted me for the whole day of Friday but I said I 'm sorry I can only do you half day if you 're interested , they were , they were desperate . |
| 2 | He began doing them in the earliest days of his career down on Coenties Slip in the late Fifties ( where the drawing classes held in Fred Mitchell 's loft became legendary ) and has kept steadily at them ever since . |
| 3 | England 's first choice spinners , Emburey and Tufnell , did not take a wicket between them until the third day of the third Test . |
| 4 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 5 | Should they attempt to influence the bishops , Archbishop Felici warned them on the first day of the new session , they would lose their privileges , a threat that caused considerable resentment as much among the fathers as among their advisers . |
| 6 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 7 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 8 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 9 | Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend . |
| 10 | Joe Longthorne is an abundantly talented performer and on first meeting him during the early days of his success I was struck by his lack of conceit . |
| 11 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 12 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 13 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 14 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 15 | Linda recognised her from the previous day at school . |
| 16 | That , and the discovery that she could not bear a man near her in the early days after the rape ; so she had feigned an illness , explained as the consequence of her breaking her engagement with Havvie , which , of course , had caused an immense furore inside and outside of society , and Mama and Papa had put off their visit to England , and sent her loving letters , for she had written that she had discovered that she did not really love Havvie at all , had merely been beglamoured by his appearance , name and title . |
| 17 | He 'd been conscious of her in the old days of course , although he kept quiet about that . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 19 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 20 | You may also need to help her to transfer to the list of your own general practitioner , if she and he are both agreeable to this ; and of course she must be assured that you , or some other member of the family will be with her on the actual day of the move or , if she wishes , take the responsibility of it off her shoulders completely . |
| 21 | Joyce , who had experienced more than her fair share of personal sorrow , described it as the saddest day of her life . |
| 22 | She had thought of it as the happiest day of her life , a day with only a small shadow upon it , an insignificant wisp of fear , nothing to disturb the joy . |
| 23 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 24 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |
| 25 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 26 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 27 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 28 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 29 | Our eyes met and all the while we were sitting down discussing what we had to do and how we were going to go about it over the four days of the course , my gaze kept returning to the sour-faced buzzard . |
| 30 | And join us for the first day of the Henley Royal Regatta for a parade of feasting , fashion and rowing . |